NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
@pieist @ct_bergstrom I see in one of the plots that Italy is a close second after Saudi Arabia, but, yeah, we are too Nord to be a papermill problem, Thailand is the problematic guy 🙄